Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
...will be rich and famous; then his sensational adventure comes about apparently as an accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard him as the epitome of respectability that he has always seemed, or a Borgia in disguise. This uncertainty does not add to the interest. There is an amusing uncertainty springing up in the third act, however, over whether the little man actually made the kill that he is so sure of, or whether his glory is to be snatched away from him by some one else's having fired the deadly...
...length deciding that to face John Lewis, the man-eater of the Mine Workers on the stage of the Rialto would only add indignity to misfortune, Bill Green called in reporters. He gave them copies of a 4,000 word defense he was sending to Washington. Denying the treason charge "unqualifiedly and without equivocation," Miner Green spoke over Miner Lewis' head to the rank& file and their pocketbooks. He asked as a union "stockholder" by what authority the U. M. W. board had loaned $2,000,000 to C. I. O., adding: "It is a serious matter to stockholders...
MONPTI - Gabor Vaszary - Knopf ($2.50). Reminiscent of the early Knut Hamsun, the Paris romance of a poor Hungarian student and an ingenuous coquette. For its full laugh-&-cry flavor, add Chopin accompaniment...
...sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage of Wisconsin. Nor do Nicholas Murray Butler's annual speeches to the economic royalists in Southampton add to the credit of Columbia...